Bradford

Where Bradford comes from

* Various place names in England, from Old English brād (“broad”) + ford (“ford”). * (shaken martini)
— Wiktionary's entry for Bradford
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1930
    Bradford Dillman born
    American actor
  3. 1953
    Peak, #240
    779 babies named Bradford — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1977
    Bradford Young born
    American cinematographer
  5. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #437.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
Namesakes
  • Bradford Dillman · American actor, 1930–2018
  • Bradford Young · American cinematographer, born 1977
  • Bradford Jamieson IV · American professional soccer player, born 1996
  • Bradford Parkinson · American systems engineer and developer of global positioning system, born 1935
  • Bradford Washburn · American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer, 1910–2007

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.